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This course delves into the science of aerodynamics, its history, from the earliest developments to the most modern advances, and how airplanes fly. It discusses concepts related to lift as applied to airplanes, birds, and other vehicles and the major contributions of the aerospace sector and future developments. This course examines the four forces of flight, fluids, how wings work (design and characteristics), and aerodynamics in high-performance sports. Students participate in a hands-on activity called the ¨Wind Tunnel Experiment¨ to see aerodynamics in action.  Finally, this course looks at the aeronautical industry in the news and evaluates the future of flight.  

This course examines the clash between Carthage and Rome in its proper Mediterranean context. It will explore the many simultaneous events of the Third Century, from Portugal to Iraq, showing how smaller communities were drawn into the conflict, and how even the superpowers were dependent on and manipulated by so many supposedly weaker parties. The history will be examined from various viewpoints, from Hellenistic kings and Roman soldiers, to Celtic farmers, small islanders and Carthaginian cavalrymen. 

The course examines how European Union law shapes business organizations and market activity within the EU internal market. Topics include company law, freedom of establishment, corporate governance, ESG regulation, consumer protection, competition law, digital markets, and the legal frameworks governing fair and sustainable business practices.  

Generative AI breakthroughs are reshaping industry structures, business models, and the nature of work. This course explores how organizations can craft, execute, and govern strategy amid rapid AI diffusion. Structured around seven thematic modules, the course integrates theoretical studies and practical case discussions (e.g., DeepSeek, NVIDIA CUDA), and practitioner talks.

This course explores the evolving media landscape of 21st century Korea, challenging students to critically analyze and engage with current media forms and trends. We begin with fundamental questions: What is media? What is the current media environment? And what should the ideal media environment look like? These inquiries frame our exploration, which addresses the multidimensional nature of media, the transition from the mass media era to the post-mass media era, and the relevant issues of relevance that arise in contemporary media contexts in Korea. This course redefines "media" in the 21st century by considering it as a pervasive environment rather than just tools or platforms. The course explores the five dimensions of media-tools, content, institutions, people, and spaces-and traces the evolution from the era of centralized mass media to today's fragmented, participatory media environment. This shift has created both opportunities and challenges, particularly around the concept of "relevance" in media. The course examines how the mass media era created a "crisis of relevance" by delivering standardized content that was often disconnected from individual lives. In the post-mass media era, this has morphed into a "super-crisis of relevance," where personal and local stories gain visibility but risk commodification and distortion by global
platforms. Students gain insight into the ethical concerns of the current media environment and strategies for thoughtfully navigating it. By reshaping how we conceptualize the role of media, this course empowers students to critically assess the impact of the media environment on our collective and personal realities. 

This course introduces students to different psychological perspectives for thinking about social justice, inequality, freedom, and collective life. Drawing on social psychology, cognitive psychology, cultural psychology, affective neuroscience, clinical and abnormal psychology, and selected psychodynamic perspectives, the course examines psychological processes involved in social judgment, prejudice, collective action, mental health, and social change. Rather than approaching social justice as a fixed concept or through a single dimension of analysis, the course considers it as a dynamic, socially and culturally situated construction shaped by how people perceive, interpret, feel, contest, and organize around questions of fairness, exclusion, autonomy, and belonging. Anchored in Paris, and in a context where liberté, égalité, fraternité remains both an aspiration and a point of tension, the course also introduces students to French traditions that continue to inform clinical psychology and the human sciences. Through readings, guest lectures, and site visits, students encounter ideas that may offer complementary lenses for contemporary psychology. This comparative approach allows students to place U.S.-style psychological frameworks in dialogue with French ways of thinking about the psyche, society, language, power, and institutions. Field-based learning plays an important role in the course. At La Salpêtrière Hospital, students visit a historically significant site for the development of psychology, psychiatry, neurology, clinical observation, and institutional care in France. The visit to the Paris Commune offers a different kind of historical case study, focused on collective action, social identity, political imagination, and struggles over equality, while also allowing students to discover another facet of historic Montmartre. Guest speakers, including clinical psychologists working in France, help students connect these historical and theoretical questions to contemporary issues in mental health, liberty, autonomy, social inclusion, and public care. Together, these experiences invite students to expand psychological concepts with complementary analytical tools drawn from French theory, cultivating a critical perspective on the psychology of social justice in a French context.

This course explores the fundamental principles and practical applications of human rights in an increasingly interconnected world. Grounded in foundational frameworks like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the class examines gender equality, children's rights, cultural imperialism, and democratic education. 

This course is part of the Laurea Magistrale degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. In this course, students acquire the capacity to use an entangled history methodological perspective using primary sources and literature on cross-cultural exchanges, mobilities of people and goods, and social interactions between different parts of the world but also within the same geographical space in the 18th and 19th century. Students develop a critical ability to analyze interconnected phenomena concerning cultural and religious aspects, trade, forms of labor coercion and enslavement. At the end of the course, students demonstrate a sound theoretical framework within which specific research interests could be developed.

The course explains the concept of Entangled history and its different uses in research on the Early Modern and Modern period. The main focus of this course is the social, economic and cultural exchanges between actors and goods in a global perspective. The interconnections between different societies or people is analyzed going beyond the concepts of nation, empire, and civilizations to understand better the complexity of the past and its multiple voices. The course is structured in five modules: 1) What is Entangled History? Comparison with other historiographical methodological approaches 2) Social interactions between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean worlds; Race and Ethnicity 3) Global circulation of enslaved people 4) Entangled Empires: Merchants, Sailors, Workers 5) Cultural connections: Travelers, Interpreters, Missionaries. 

This course examines the complex historical realities of cultural autonomy, strategic negotiation, adaptation and everyday resistance in a particular time and place. 

This course provides a comprehensive foundation in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), focusing on designing user-friendly, efficient interactive systems. It covers human ability analysis, natural interaction techniques, and human-AI interaction, integrating interdisciplinary knowledge to solve real-world problems. The key goals of HCI-interaction efficiency and interface naturalness are explored to enhance user experience.